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ol^served with respect to the new grant. In consequence, the inhabitants 

 of those countries shall employ themselves simply in the cutting and trans- 

 portuig of the said wood, and in the gathering and transporting of the fruits, 

 without meditating any more extensive settlements, or the formation of 

 any system of government, either military or civil, further than such 

 regulations as their Britannic and Catholic Majesties may hereafter judgo 

 proper to establish for maintaining peace and good order amongst their 

 respective subjects. 



Art, 8. As it is generally allowed that the woods and forests are pre- 

 served, and even nmltiply, by regular and methodical cuttings, the English 

 shall observe this maxim as far as possible; but if, notwithstanding all 

 their precautions, it should happen in course of time that they were in 

 want of dyeing- wood or mahogany, with which the Spanish possessions 

 might be provided, the Spanish government shall make no difficulty to 

 furnish a supply to the English, at a fair and reasonable price. 



Art. 9. Every possible precaution shall be observed to prevent smug- 

 gling; and the English shall take care to conform to the regulations which 

 the Spanish government shall think proper to establish amongst their 

 own subjects in all communications which they may have with the lat- 

 ter — on condition, nevertheless, that the English shall be left in the 

 peaceable enjoyment of the several advantages inserted in their favor in. 

 the last treaty, or stipulated by the present convention. 



Art. 10. The Spanish governors shall be ordered to give to the said 

 English dispersed all possible facilities for their removal to the settlements 

 agreed upon by the present convention, according to the stipulations of 

 the sixth article of the definitive treaty of 1783, with respect to the coun- 

 try allotted for their use by the said article. 



Art. 11. Their Britannic and Catholic Majesties, in order to remove 

 every kind of doubt with regard to the true construction of the present 

 convention, think it necessary to declare that the conditions of the said 

 convention ought to be observed according to their sincere intention, 

 to insure and improve the harmony and good understanding which so 

 happily subsist at present between their said Majesties. 



In this view, his Britannic Majesty engages to give the most positive 

 orders for the evacuation of the countries above mentioned by all his sub- 

 jects, of whatever denomination; but if, contrary to such declaration, there 

 should still remain any persons so daring as to presume, by retiring into 

 the interior country, to endeavor to obstruct the entire evacuation already 

 agreed upon, his Britannic Majesty, so far from affording them the least 

 succor, or even protection, will disavow them in the most solemn man- 

 ner, as he will equally do those who may hereafter attempt to settle upon 

 the territory belonging to the Spanish dominion. 



Art. 12. The evacuation agreed upon shall be completely effected 

 within the space of six months after the exchange of the ratifications of 

 this convention, or sooner, if it can be done. 



Art. 13. It is agreed that the new grants described in the preceding 

 articles in favor of the English nation are to take place as soon as the 

 aforesaid evacuation shall be entirely accomplished. 



Art. 14. His Catholic Majesty, prompted solely by motives of hu- 

 manity, promises to the King of England that he will not exercise any 

 act of severity against the Mosquitos inhabiting in part the countries 

 which are to be evacuated by virtue of the present convention, on ac- 



